Insights into the magma plumbing system of La Fossa di Vulcano (Aeolian Islands, Italy) using oxygen isotopes and clinopyroxene crystal structure (2020)
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Wiltshire, R., Halama, R., Boyce, A., Petrone, C., Nazzareni, S., Gertisser, R., …Lucchi, F. (2020). Insights into the magma plumbing system of La Fossa di Vulcano (Aeolian Islands, Italy) using oxygen isotopes and clinopyroxene crystal structure. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-13433

<jats:p> &amp;lt;p&amp;gt;The presently active La Fossa cone, Vulcano, widely considered the most hazardous volcano in the Aeolian Islands, is characterised by alternating periods of Vulcanian to subplinian explosive events and lava flow effusion. It... Read More about Insights into the magma plumbing system of La Fossa di Vulcano (Aeolian Islands, Italy) using oxygen isotopes and clinopyroxene crystal structure.

Cyclic Aliphatic Hydrocarbons as Linkers in Metal-Organic Frameworks: New Frontiers for Ligand Design. (2020)
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Hawes, C. S. (2020). Cyclic Aliphatic Hydrocarbons as Linkers in Metal-Organic Frameworks: New Frontiers for Ligand Design. ChemPlusChem, 845 - 854. https://doi.org/10.1002/cplu.202000206

In this Minireview we outline the development of cyclic aliphatic moieties as ligands in metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), with a focus on the relationship between ligand design and synthesis and the properties of the subsequent materials. Aliphatic l... Read More about Cyclic Aliphatic Hydrocarbons as Linkers in Metal-Organic Frameworks: New Frontiers for Ligand Design..

Geophysical monitoring of simulated homicide burials for forensic investigations (2020)
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Pringle, J., Stimpson, I., Wisniewski, K., Davenward, B., Heaton, V., Mirosch, N., …Jervis, J. (2020). Geophysical monitoring of simulated homicide burials for forensic investigations. Scientific reports, 10, Article 7544. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-64262-3

Finding hidden bodies, believed to have been murdered and buried, is problematic, expensive in terms of human resource and currently has low success rates for law enforcement agencies. Here we present, for the first time, ten years of multidisciplina... Read More about Geophysical monitoring of simulated homicide burials for forensic investigations.

Probing the acid sites of zeolites with pyridine: quantitative AGIR measurements of the molar absorption coefficients (2020)
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Zholobenko. (2020). Probing the acid sites of zeolites with pyridine: quantitative AGIR measurements of the molar absorption coefficients. Journal of Catalysis, 52-60. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcat.2020.03.003

This study presents a detailed methodology, which combines high-precision thermogravimetry and FTIR spectroscopy, aiming to establish the most accurate and reliable means of measuring the molar absorption coefficients of adsorbed species. As the inte... Read More about Probing the acid sites of zeolites with pyridine: quantitative AGIR measurements of the molar absorption coefficients.

Imaging of aluminium and amyloid ß in neurodegenerative disease. (2020)
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(2020). Imaging of aluminium and amyloid ß in neurodegenerative disease. Heliyon, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e03839

Objectives: Recent research has confirmed the presence of aluminium in human brain tissue. Quantitative analyses suggest increased brain aluminium content in a number of neurodegenerative diseases including familial Alzheimer's disease, congophilic a... Read More about Imaging of aluminium and amyloid ß in neurodegenerative disease..

Magmatic and metasomatic effects of magma-carbonate interaction recorded in calc-silicate xenoliths from Merapi volcano (Indonesia) (2020)
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Halama, R., Gertisser, R., Whitley, S., Preece, K., Deegan, F., & Troll, V. (2020). Magmatic and metasomatic effects of magma-carbonate interaction recorded in calc-silicate xenoliths from Merapi volcano (Indonesia). Journal of Petrology, https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/egaa048

Magma-carbonate interaction is an increasingly recognised process occurring at active volcanoes worldwide, with implications for the magmatic evolution of the host volcanic systems, their eruptive behaviour, volcanic CO2 budgets, and economic mineral... Read More about Magmatic and metasomatic effects of magma-carbonate interaction recorded in calc-silicate xenoliths from Merapi volcano (Indonesia).

Telomerase inhibition, telomere attrition and proliferation arrest of cancer cells induced by phosphorothioate ASO-NLS conjugates targeting hTERC and siRNAs targeting hTERT (2020)
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Diala, I., Shiohama, Y., Fujita, T., Kotake, Y., Demonacos, C., Krstic-Demonacos, M., …Fujii, M. (2020). Telomerase inhibition, telomere attrition and proliferation arrest of cancer cells induced by phosphorothioate ASO-NLS conjugates targeting hTERC and siRNAs targeting hTERT. Nucleosides, Nucleotides and Nucleic Acids, 39(1-3), 407 - 425. https://doi.org/10.1080/15257770.2020.1713357

Telomerase activity has been regarded as a critical step in cellular immortalization and carcinogenesis and because of this, regulation of telomerase represents an attractive target for anti-tumor specific therapeutics. Recently, one avenue of cancer... Read More about Telomerase inhibition, telomere attrition and proliferation arrest of cancer cells induced by phosphorothioate ASO-NLS conjugates targeting hTERC and siRNAs targeting hTERT.

Chemisorption and Physisorption at the Metal/Organic Interface: Bond Energies of Naphthalene and Azulene on Coinage Metal Surfaces (2020)
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Kachel, S. R., Klein, B. P., Morbec, J. M., Schöniger, M., Hutter, M., Schmid, M., …Michael Gottfried, J. (2020). Chemisorption and Physisorption at the Metal/Organic Interface: Bond Energies of Naphthalene and Azulene on Coinage Metal Surfaces. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 8257 - 8268. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c00915

Organic/inorganic hybrid interfaces play a prominent role in organic (opto)electronics, heterogeneous catalysis, sensors, and other current fields of technology. The performance of the related devices and processes depends critically on the nature an... Read More about Chemisorption and Physisorption at the Metal/Organic Interface: Bond Energies of Naphthalene and Azulene on Coinage Metal Surfaces.

The effect of ZSM-5 zeolite crystal size on p-xylene selectivity in toluene disproportionation (2020)
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Albahar, M., Li, C., Zholobenko, V., & Garforth, A. (2020). The effect of ZSM-5 zeolite crystal size on p-xylene selectivity in toluene disproportionation. Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.micromeso.2020.110221

The effect of crystal size was explored in this work aiming at enhancing p-xylene selectivity through toluene disproportionation over ZSM-5 zeolite. The different physicochemical properties of ZSM-5 were investigated using various characterization te... Read More about The effect of ZSM-5 zeolite crystal size on p-xylene selectivity in toluene disproportionation.

Supramolecular copolymerization driven by integrative self-sorting of hydrogen-bonded rosettes. (2020)
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Aratsu, K., Takeya, R., Pauw, B., Hollamby, M., Kitamoto, Y., Shimizu, N., …Yagai, S. (2020). Supramolecular copolymerization driven by integrative self-sorting of hydrogen-bonded rosettes. Nature communications, 11, Article 1623. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15422-6

Molecular recognition to preorganize noncovalently polymerizable supramolecular complexes is a characteristic process of natural supramolecular polymers, and such recognition processes allow for dynamic self-alteration, yielding complex polymer syste... Read More about Supramolecular copolymerization driven by integrative self-sorting of hydrogen-bonded rosettes..

An investigation into the detection of fraud during poultry egg production: a metabonomic approach using liquid chromatography - mass spectrometry (2020)
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Johnson, A. E. (2020). An investigation into the detection of fraud during poultry egg production: a metabonomic approach using liquid chromatography - mass spectrometry. (Thesis). Keele University

Food fraud is becoming an increasingly difficult challenge, with the ongoing global expansion of food supply chains. Previously developed methods have been successful in the detection of some instances of food fraud, however they struggle to detect m... Read More about An investigation into the detection of fraud during poultry egg production: a metabonomic approach using liquid chromatography - mass spectrometry.

Synthesis and characterisation of high silica zeolites for methane reforming (2020)
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Woodfine, S. E. (2020). Synthesis and characterisation of high silica zeolites for methane reforming. (Thesis). Keele University

In this study, the ability of the MTBA cation to effectively direct the formation of the nanosized MFI framework was present for the first time. Two nanosized materials from different SDAs were synthesised and investigated with a variety of different... Read More about Synthesis and characterisation of high silica zeolites for methane reforming.

Synthesis of magnetic nanoparticles with an IDA or TED modified surface for purification and immobilization of poly-histidine tagged proteins (2020)
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Yang. (2020). Synthesis of magnetic nanoparticles with an IDA or TED modified surface for purification and immobilization of poly-histidine tagged proteins. RSC advances, 11524 - 11534. https://doi.org/10.1039/C9RA10473A

Magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) chelating with metal ions can specifically interact with poly-histidine peptides and facilitate immobilization and purification of proteins with poly-histidine tags. Fabrication of MNPs is generally complicated and time... Read More about Synthesis of magnetic nanoparticles with an IDA or TED modified surface for purification and immobilization of poly-histidine tagged proteins.

Assessing the Practical Skills of Undergraduates: The Evolution of a Station-Based Practical Exam (2020)
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Hancock, L. M., & Hollamby, M. (2020). Assessing the Practical Skills of Undergraduates: The Evolution of a Station-Based Practical Exam. Journal of Chemical Education, 97(4), 972 - 979. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.9b00733

Laboratory education is a defining feature of chemistry degree courses, with one of the fundamental aims being acquiring competency in a range of chemistry-specific practical skills, yet there are still limited reports of direct assessment of these s... Read More about Assessing the Practical Skills of Undergraduates: The Evolution of a Station-Based Practical Exam.

Site-selective laser spectroscopy and defect configurations of the Nd3+-Li+ centres in ZnO powders (2020)
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Jackson. (2020). Site-selective laser spectroscopy and defect configurations of the Nd3+-Li+ centres in ZnO powders. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 153306 - 153306. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2019.153306

Near-infrared emission in the 885–915?nm region was observed for two distinct Nd3+ centres that co-exist in hexagonal wurtzite ZnO:1?mol%Nd3+:10?mol%Li+ powders. The powder samples were prepared by sintering in air at 950?°C and the emission, attribu... Read More about Site-selective laser spectroscopy and defect configurations of the Nd3+-Li+ centres in ZnO powders.

The interaction of aluminium-based adjuvants with THP-1 macrophages in vitro: Implications for cellular survival and systemic translocation. (2020)
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(2020). The interaction of aluminium-based adjuvants with THP-1 macrophages in vitro: Implications for cellular survival and systemic translocation. Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, 110915 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2019.110915

Within clinical vaccinations, recombinant antigens are routinely entrapped inside or adsorbed onto the surface of aluminium salts in order to increase their immunological potency in vivo. The efficacy of these immunisations is highly dependent upon t... Read More about The interaction of aluminium-based adjuvants with THP-1 macrophages in vitro: Implications for cellular survival and systemic translocation..

Nanostructured large-pore zeolite: the enhanced accessibility of active sites and its effect on the catalytic performance (2020)
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(2020). Nanostructured large-pore zeolite: the enhanced accessibility of active sites and its effect on the catalytic performance. Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.micromeso.2019.109805

Zeolites Y, ZSM-5, beta, mordenite and LTL were converted into hierarchical meso-microporous catalysts applying the surfactant templating strategy and the resulting materials were utilised as catalysts for esterification and aldol condensation reacti... Read More about Nanostructured large-pore zeolite: the enhanced accessibility of active sites and its effect on the catalytic performance.

Synthesis and Isolation of Diastereomeric Anomeric Sulfoxides from a d-Mannuronate Thioglycoside Building Block (2020)
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Dimitriou, E., & Miller, G. (2020). Synthesis and Isolation of Diastereomeric Anomeric Sulfoxides from a d-Mannuronate Thioglycoside Building Block. Molbank, 2020(1), M1111. https://doi.org/10.3390/M1111

Methyl [S-phenyl 4-O-acetyl-2,3-di-O-benzyl-1-thio-&alpha;-d-mannopyranoside (R/S)S-oxide] uronate was synthesised from a thioglycoside mannosyl uronate donor in a 98% yield. By using one equivalent of meta-chloroperbenzoic acid (m-CPBA) as the sulph... Read More about Synthesis and Isolation of Diastereomeric Anomeric Sulfoxides from a d-Mannuronate Thioglycoside Building Block.

Sensing the Danger Signals: cis-Jasmone Reduces Aphid Performance on Potato and Modulates the Magnitude of Released Volatiles (2020)
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(2020). Sensing the Danger Signals: cis-Jasmone Reduces Aphid Performance on Potato and Modulates the Magnitude of Released Volatiles. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2019.00499

In response to herbivory, plants synthesize and release variable mixtures of herbivore-induced plant volatiles (HIPVs) as indirect defense traits. Such induction of indirect plant defense can also be “switched on” by certain chemicals known as primin... Read More about Sensing the Danger Signals: cis-Jasmone Reduces Aphid Performance on Potato and Modulates the Magnitude of Released Volatiles.

A tutored discourse on microcontrollers, single board computers and their applications to monitor and control chemical reactions (2020)
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Fitzpatrick, D., O'Brien, M., & Ley, S. (2020). A tutored discourse on microcontrollers, single board computers and their applications to monitor and control chemical reactions. Reaction Chemistry and Engineering, 5(2), 201-220. https://doi.org/10.1039/C9RE00407F

This Tutored Discourse constitutes a preliminary exposure on how synthesis chemists can engage positively with inexpensive, low-power microcontrollers to aid control, monitoring and optimisation of chemical reactions. The acquired skillset adds a new... Read More about A tutored discourse on microcontrollers, single board computers and their applications to monitor and control chemical reactions.